At first, Albert felt constrained by his position as consort, which did not confer any power or duties upon him.
But "Serenade" (1934) begins with 17 women in calf-length skirts; "Theme and Variations" (1947) with ballerina and her male consort at center stage, surrounded — like royalty at court — by corps de ballet, the women all in tutus; and "Stravinsky Violin Concerto" (1972) with a ballerina and four men all in black-and-white rehearsal uniform.
Between the knighting of Prince Philip and the attacks on the human rights commissioner, Gillian Triggs, we now see revealed the essence of this government – one that believes in a near-feudal hierarchy with a European monarch's consort at the top and women and children at the bottom.
First, he delivered sections of it accompanied by a string quartet at the Royal Academy, then he gave it with a massively augmented Gabrieli Consort at a Prom.
The two months recently spent on an advanced management programme at Harvard Business School, consorting with chief executives, has obviously rubbed off on Lewis, who is fizzing with energy.
The new timbres hinted at a Baroque consort.
By L. E. Sissman The New Yorker, March 20 , 1971P. 40 One night's stop at the Prince Consort Hotel View Article By Miranda Carter By Amos Barshad By George Packer By Emily Nussbaum.
A video circulated widely in 2007 showed his third wife, known as the "royal consort", at a formal dinner with the prince in a titillating state of undress.
Her friends at the Waverly Consort, an early music group, donated a 17th-century opera set to the Fine Arts Department that is perfect for madrigal performances.
We had been looking for an illustration that would help us to colour in a drawing of the Prince Consort at the Great Exhibition.
